I saw Moonrise Kingdom last night. It was so amazingly good. If I had to rank Wes Anderson’s films I’d say: The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore and Fantastic Mr. Fox on the same level, Moonrise Kingdom, and then The Darjeeling Limited.
I’m always looking for a good film to watch. any suggestions?
I might throw a list of movies up here, that I think are worth a watch.
terrible photo of me but Nayif looks pretty cute. we were having a frustrating conversation. I was telling him he needed to burp and he was telling me he doesn’t take orders from khala, “so bug off! I refused to burp” he may have also barfed on me twice in one day!
love you little buddy!
Tiny Toonz loves Rebecca Minkoff, watching TV all day sprawled out on the couch with his little potbelly hanging out, and then eating from a 24 hour buffet. he’s not spoiled and cute at the same time or anything. ;)
if you put your ear on the inner thigh of a complete stranger on the bus you can actually hear them say “what the fuck are you doing”
Richard Brody on What to See This Weekend: Wes Anderson’s “Moonrise Kingdom,” Twice
What makes the film thrillingly different—in content and in affect, in emotional energy and in visual imagination—is its metaphysical and religious element. There’s an expressly transcendent theme in “Moonrise Kingdom” that raises the tender and joyous story of young lovers on the run to a spiritual adventure. The moral vision of the world, which was always implicit and latent in Anderson’s other films, here bursts out as a distinctive, ecstatic, visionary new cinematic dimension. Anderson has always been far more than just an exquisite stylist—his style is an essential part of a consistent spiritual vision. But in “Moonrise Kingdom,” his world view is projected beyond personal experience into a cosmic fantasy. It’s Anderson’s own counter-Scripture, a vision of a moral order, ordained from on high, that challenges the official version instilled by society at large—and he embodies it in images of an apt sublimity (as well as an aptly self-deprecating humor).
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